Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 29,152, Thomas Fergo, Conn.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Conn.
Fargo, Thomas
S. 29,152
CONTENTS

1749 Michigan
Thomas Fargo
of St- Clair in the Genl Terri: Mich: who was a Private in the Comp y commanded by Captain  of the Reg t commanded by Col. Holcomb in the Connec t . line for 1 year from 1776
Inscribed on the Roll of Michigan at the rate of 40 Dollars — Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 10 th day of Nov. 1832. — — and put to Pensioner St- Clair. Michigan
Arrears to 4th of Sept 1832 — 60 —
Pension allowance ending 4 20
March 1833
80. —
{ Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.
Recorded by Nathan Rice Clerk Book D Vol. 10 Page 138.

Territory of Michigan } County of St-Clair }
ss On this seventeenth day of October in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty two, personally appeared in open court before the Circuit Court of the County of St-Clair aforesaid, now sitting Thomas Fergo a resident of the Township of St-Clair in said County of St-Clair & said Territory aged seventy five years, who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed June 7, 1832. That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers, and served as herein stated, viz deponent served in the Regiment Col Erastus Root of the Connecticut Militia; the name of the Lieut Col was Smith; the name of the Major of said Regt was Doct Elisha Ely. The name of the Capt of the Company in which deponent served was Adam Chaple; John Hempsted was the 1st Lieut & Richard Chapman was the 2nd Lieut. - Deponent entered the service in the early part of the month of June 1776 and his term of service expired in the month of January 1777 he having served in said Regt for the term of seven months. Deponent resided in the Town of Mountville, County of New London & State of Connecticut, when he entered the service. He was in the service as a volunteer; deponent further says that in the year 1778 he was drafted in the Company of Capt Richard Root for the term of one month, and he served in said Company for said term of one month. He does not recollect the names of the subalterns.

Said Company of Capt Wait belonged to Col Masons Regt of the Connecticut Militia. Deponent resided at the time of draft in said Town County & State. Deponent was again drafted for one month, in the year 1779 in Capt Beebes Company & Col Satomes Regt of Connecticut Militia, and served one month pursuant to said draft and was then discharged, at the time deponent entered the service in morning time think in the month of July. He does not recollect the names of the subalterns of the Company. He resided at the time of this draft in the Town of Waterford, in said County of New London in said State - In the month of May or June in the year 1781 deponent was again drafted for the term of one month, in Capt Johnsons Company & the Regt of Col Satomes & at the expiration of said term he was discharged, his residence was as last mentioned. In the month of July 1782, Deponent was again drafted, for one month in the Company of Lieut Minard, the Capt, whose name was Thompson being in the U S service at the time in same Regt & residence same as last mentioned. At different periods in 1778 and later deponent was called out in the Connecticut Militia for periods of ten days each, when it was feared that a landing would be effected by the British Fleet at the Harbor of New London. At the time deponent served in the Company of Capt Johnson as a draft as above stated he was with said Company at the burning of New London by the British. For the four last months of service he was a draft. - His whole term of service in said Militia amounted to twelve months - He recollects the names of Capt Buckley, Pease, Palmer, Mather who served in same regt with deponent was a private soldier.

Deponent hereby relinquishes any claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension Roll of the agency of any state. Deponent through all his service was stationed at New London & on the shore west. Deponent never received any written discharge from the service. & as no Clergyman resides in the neighborhood, he consequently cannot obtain the the certificate of such a person, as is required in the premises. And deponent further saith that no surviving witness can be found who has a personal knowledge of his services.
Sworn to & subscribed in open court this 17 Oct 1832.
Thomas Sprengel
James Fulton Clerk H. C. M. J.
We Samuel Ward & James Woolverton residing in the County of St Clair aforesaid hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Mr Thomas Fergo above named who has subscribed his name and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be seventy five years of age; and that he is known and reported in the neighborhood in which he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution & that we concur in that opinion
Samuel Ward
Sworn to & subscribed this 17 th day of Oct AD 1832. in open court
James B. Woolverton
James Fulton Clerk H. C. M. J.

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter & after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the war department, that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier & served as he states. & The Court further certify that it appears to them, Samuel Ward & James B. M'Clure that the cards known as  St Clair Fergo, who have signed the preceding certificate are residents in the County of St Clair aforesaid and are credible persons and that their statements are entitled to credit.
Palmer Oct 17 1831
Prof. Williams
Col. Schuler
I James Fulton Clerk of the Circuit Court for the County of St Clair aforesaid do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of said Court, in the matter of the application of Thomas Fergo for a pension In testimony
whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of Office at Palmer in said County, this Seventeenth  tenth day of October one thousand Eight hundred & thirty two
James Fulton Clerk St Clair Co. Mich
X Deponent recollects that the name of the Genl in whose Brigade he served was Joseph Williams.
The nearest Branch Bank of the U.S. is at the City of Buffalo in the State of New York. Post Office.
The nearest is at St Clair in the County of St Clair, Territory of Michigan.

February 8, 1928.
Reverend William Fargo Bayle, Monongahela, Pennsylvania.
Sir:
I advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim S.89152, it appears that Thomas Fargo, while residing at Montville, New London County, Connecticut, enlisted and served as a private with the Connecticut Troops, as follows--
From in June 1776, seven months in Captain Adam Chaple's Company, Colonel Erastus Wolcott's Regiment, and in 1778, one month in Captain Richard Wait's Company, Colonel Mason's Regiment.
While residing at Waterford, New London County, Connecticut, he enlisted and served as a private with the Connecticut Troops, as follows--
From in July 1779, one month in Captain Beebe's Company, Colonel Lattimer's Regiment: from May or June 1781, one month in Captain Johnson's Company, Colonel Lattimer's Regiment, and was at the burning of New London;

and from in July 1782, one month under Lieutenant Minard in Colonel Lattimer's Regiment. He was also out on other short tours, no officers stated.
He was allowed pension on his application executed October 17, 1832, while a resident of St. Clair Township, St. Clair County, Michigan, aged seventy-five years.
There are no data as to family.
The above noted Thomas Fargo or Fergo is the only soldier of that name found on the Revolutionary War records of this Bureau and said records fail to afford any information in regard to any soldiers named Moses and Thomas Turner Fargo or Fergo.
Respectfully,
WINFIELD SCOTT, Commissioner.

29152 Rev INVALID.
File No. 29,152
Thomas Hargo
His Rev Rev
Act: June 7 th 1894
Index:—Vol. 9 , Page 134
[Arrangement of 1870.]
1928- Feb. 8- Hrist to Rev. Wm. J. Bayle and.

Bellview Oct 23
Pension Office -
June
Nov. 7
from 1776 private 12 months $40.
enter Regt. Register.
Honble James M c Lane
Secretary of the Treasury Washington City -
Dep. Spk. referred to the War Department Treasury Department 6 Nov. 1839

Lovee
Nov. 7
Bothwell Oct 23
for 1776 prints 12 months. $40.
enter for Register.
Mr Lane
Passion Office.
Secretary of the Treasury Washington City
Respectfully &c the Hon Department Treasury Department 6 Dec. 1859

To the Honble the Secretary of the Treasury of the U.S. —
Sir
The application for a pension herewith accompanying is made with a view of relieving my necessitous condition in life. There was a time when I would have scorned, to have petitioned my Government for relief of this nature, when my friend heart would not have yielded to the pressure of human mishaps; but that day has passed — Age has stricken me with his palsied hand, & the borrowed check, the dimmed eye, & the listless car, fully attest that I am rapidly approa- ching that bourne, whence no one returns. For some years my infirmities have rendered me incapable of labor, and my means of subsistence are scanty indeed. — When I served my Country in the days of her mighty struggle I did it urged by the impetus of patriotism & with the utmost willing- ness, which can characterize a sense of duty. My application I may hope will meet with immediate attention, as otherwise it could not be of any service whatever. Old age must very soon deprive my Country of exercising towards me an act of bounty — But even should my application be too late, & should death seize the victim before relief is received my latest aspiration will bestow a blessing on my Country —
Thomas Hays
St Clair 17 th Oct 1832.

ST. PAUL'S CHURCH MONONGAHELA, PA.
July 5, 1927
The Commissioners of Pensions, Washington, D.C.
My dear sir;-
I am interested in ascertaining if a Moses Fargo of New London, Connecticut, served in the Revolutionary War and also his son Thomas Turner Fargo. only
Moses Fargo was born about 1730 and a family tradition states that he defended New London.
I will appreciate any information you may give me regarding either of these men.
Thanking you, I remain,
Very sincerely yours ,
(Rev) Wm Fargo Bayle.